Locking device for securing automobile-robes, overcoats, and the like.



J. S. THOMPSON. LOCKING DEVICE FOR SECURING AUTOMOBILE HOBBS, OVERCOATS, AND THE LIKE,

APPLICATION TILED MAY 21, 1012,

Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

WITNESSES JOSEPH S. THOMPSON, GI -MILL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA.

LOCKING DEVICE FOR SECURING AUTOMOBILE-B03138, DVERCO ATS, AND THE LIKE.

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Specification of Letters Patent. I

Patented Oct. as, 1912,

Application filed Naval, 1912. Serial 1Y0. 698,777,

To all whom it may concern. 1

Be it known that I, Josnrrr S."THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Mill. Valley, in the county of Marin and State of California, have invented a. new

and useful Improvement in Locking Devices for Securing A1itomol'iile-Robes,'Overcoats, and the Like,of{which the following is a specification. 1

My invention consists o f allocking mechanism and the object'of my lIlVEIltlOll. is to.

provide a means for securelyfastening automobile robes on the robe railof an automobile, so that they cannot be removed without unlocking and-thereby freeing my device. I attain this object by the device illustrated in the acconipanying, drawing in which}- 7 Figure I isa view of the locking'device applied to an automobile robe 1, supported on can automobileroberail 2, Fig. II is a side view of the device partly in section and Fig. III is an endsect-ion of thelock chamber.

Similar designating marks refer to similar parts throughout the several drawings.

Part 3 is a sliding arm with a curved ball shapedend 4 and with a stop head 5 and notch 6, and part 7 is a lock chamber with ball 4 of part 3.

In the lock chamber 7, a Wedge 9 anda. cup shaped extension 8, set in line withi the roller 10 are so arranged that the spiral spring 11 forces the roller between the wedge and the sliding arm 3, so that the moving of the sliding arm, which would tend to separate the-arm extension dand the chamberextension 8, would be checked by the Wedgelike action of theroller 10, which would bind itagainst the upper portion of the chamber 7, the revolving barrel 12 preventing thewedgefi from receding under the pressure of theroller 10. Should, how ever, a key be inserted in the barrel 12, ro-

tatlng' it to the position whereinthe notch 13 would move under the wedge 9, said wedge'will recede into the notch freeing the ,roller and making it possible to freely slide the arm 3 back and forth in the chamber 7. When it is required to lock the mechanism, the arm 3 is moved to its extreme outer position, when the notch 6 will permit thev r0ller'10to rcede, freeing the Wedge 9 so that the barrel 10 can readily be turned into the locking position by means of a key, after which the device-can be clamped on the robes and robe rail by simply squeezing it together. It will therefore be seen that when this device is clamped, as shown in Fig. I and Fig. II, around an automobile robe and robe rail, itwill be impossible to.

JOSEPH s. THOMPSON.

Witnesses HERMAN Gnrenn,

EsrnLLE LEVY. 

